Why have more special programs (or even Project LIFT) when the solution to the academic problem among blacks was found nearly 50 years ago?
Technology was the answer then (especially corporate sponsored, "real-world" technology) just as it often is today.
This could have all been nipped in the bud if only they had used the
Dictaphone Electronic Classroom
(using Dictaphones with Dictabelt technology!)
as recommended by Beulah Brown in the Journal of Negro Education back in the summer of 1966.
Among its reputed benefits were (p. 248):
(3) Teachers can work more closely with the children and help build a more solid foundation for today's complex living.
(4) Teachers and pupils will find the "teaching-learning" experience loads of fun.
(5) Classroom discipline (surface behavior problems) will be almost nonexistent.
(6) Slower and less alert pupils will receive more from this personal belted teaching-learning experience.
(7) Potential dropouts will have a greater incentive to stay in school a while longer.
At least according to this "study":
"Learning is Fun" with the Dictaphone Electronic Classroom -- A Discussion.
By Beulah E. Brown, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 35, No. 3, Summer 1966.
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